And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
HENRI BERGSONEurope is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized… we shall have war.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life.
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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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One can always reason with reason.
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Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.
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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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